About Me

Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata in her very own words had said about Mr Bhutoria ---
“He is a boy with a different vision altogether”. ---
Sundeep Bhutoria is a man with a mission – to make meaningful contribution to the betterment of society and to promote Indian art and culture at home and abroad.
Born in Churu in the Shekhawati region of India’s desert state of Rajasthan, Sundeep is very well known in the social, literary, diplomatic and the political circles in India.
A globetrotter, Mr Bhutoria straddles across worlds and wears many caps – a popular youth icon, tireless social worker and activist, ardent admirer of Indian art and culture, a successful businessman - he is engaged in many UNA projects holding key positions. He is closely associated with many social welfare organisations and trusts.
He loves to read,writes columns in dailies, plays the violin and enjoys playing golf and watching polo. He lives in Kolkata (India) with his wife Manjari but divides his time between Rajasthan, Delhi and London each year.
In a short time he has achieved many milestones and recognitions.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

With Mr Yogi C Deveshwar

October 29, 2013: I returned from a weekend in Jaipur yesterday.

I
was there on a pre-Diwali visit to catch up with some of my friends and
acquaintances and also do a couple of meetings.

With Sanjay Budhia and Atri Bhattacharya

Like Delhi, Jaipur too has a
culture of nightlong Diwali parties and I attended 11 of them on Saturday and
Sunday. Of course, it was very tiring and by the time I finished on both the
days it was almost sun up.

Before leaving for Jaipur, I attended the dinner party of The
Embassy of Sweden on October 25 in Kolkata which set the ball rolling
to celebrate the Swedish Government endorsed Nobel Foundation's series
of centenary events in Kolkata and other metros of India to mark Gurudev
Rabindranath Tagore's 100 years of Nobel Prize which was
conferred on him in December 1912.

With Mr & Mrs Harald Sandberg

The Swedish government has already invited foreign minister Salman
Khurshid to attend the Stockholm programme which is a first for any country or
laureate.

This is a very rare gesture and a great honour for Tagore and
Indians. Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore - the first non-European and Asian to
receive the Nobel Prize for literature.

The Swedish embassy in India has planned a week-long programme in
December 2013 in Indian metros and Stockholm and has collaborated with the
Calcutta Metro to establish "Nobel Walls" -- walls that will serve as
tributes to India's Nobel laureates -- at three city stations
with a Tagore connect.

With Mr Tobias Degsell

At the dinner party, I met the Swedish envoy to India, Harald
Sandberg and his wife and also Mr Tobias Degsell, the curator of the Nobel
Museum in Stockholm, who was in in the city on Friday. A large number
of eminent Kolkatans were there at the party cutting across all walks of life.
I met the different consular corps of Kolkata and others.

I am told that a group of 10 choir singers from Lund,
Sweden, who have been practising Rabindrasangeet, would be visiting Kolkata and
Shantiniketan in December.

This is, I think a major cultural initiative from
Sweden and for a befitting reason for Gurudev lives in the hearts and minds of
millions across the world.